Don Wildman

So it's just one of those situations where so many factors are involved in creating a moment of chaos and mayhem and nothing ever goes well in those situations.

Yeah.

But the unprecedented quality of the situation calls for a big outcry nationally.

And the troops argue, some of them, that they were threatened by a sniper.

Where did that even come from?

I'm going to read a quote from that report.

Everything you've spoken of...

very tersely wrapped up there right in that thing.

Kent State was processed pretty quickly as a nation, wasn't it?

I mean, it was seen as wrong right off the bat, wasn't it?

Right, and further divided on other lines.

I mean, now you have the generational thing happening, which is, you know, just no one under 30, and over 30.

Liberals and conservatives are no longer talking to each other.

Just to put a number to your point, four million students took part in the nationwide protests.

I mean, my goodness.

Talk about the wrong result of something you were trying to accomplish.

May 10th, 100,000 American citizens demonstrate in front of the White House.

I mean, we're right back to LBJ at that point, you know.

And everything that Nixon was trying to accomplish kind of backfires, doesn't it?

Yes, indeed.